
Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement tax cuts fuel talk of spring election
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55% ReliableFair
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- Politician Portrayal
18% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
52% : With the Conservatives trailing in opinion polls, the chancellor used a fresh squeeze on public spending to pay for a bigger-than-expected reduction in NICs worth £450 a year to the average employee, coupled with permanent 100% investment breaks for business.43% : Jeremy Hunt sought to blunt the impact of the highest levels of taxation since the second world war with a cut in workers' national insurance contributions, fuelling speculation about a snap spring general election.
42% : Tax cuts to boost business investment are welcome, but undermined by plans to cut public investment by over a third - it's hard to think of a more anti-growth policy.
35% : The Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank said while higher inflation had pushed up tax revenue, department budgets would not automatically adjust.Paul Johnson, its director, said: "These tax cuts have been 'paid for', in effect, by a bigger squeeze on the real-terms value of public service budgets and an even bigger squeeze on public investment, which is frozen in cash terms.
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